Harry S Truman

You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it.
- Harry S Truman

Muhammad Ali

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
- Muhammad Ali

Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler

Agatha Christie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie

Mohandas Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Muriel Rukeyser

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
- Muriel Rukeyser

Logan Pearsall Smith

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

H. L. Mencken

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
- H. L. Mencken

Albert Einstein

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." 
       -- Albert Einstein

Tennessee Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
- Tennessee Williams

Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin

Rita Rudner

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
- Rita Rudner

W. Somerset Maugham

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Dave Barry

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
- Dave Barry

Hugh White

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
- Hugh White

Ambrose Bierce

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce

Ellen Degeneres

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.
- Ellen Degeneres

Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be just as good as anybody else's.
- Will Rogers

John Wayne

If everything isn't black and white, I say, Why the hell not?
- John Wayne

Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Confucius

The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius

Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Tao Te Ching

The soft and pliable overcomes the hard and inflexible.
- Tao Te Ching

Anne Sullivan

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
- Anne Sullivan

Lily Tomlin

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
- Lily Tomlin

Gypsy Rose Lee

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower.
- Gypsy Rose Lee

George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw

Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato

Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

Mark Twain

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
- Mark Twain